MathCAD
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MathCad is a computer algebra system somewhat similar to Mathematica or Maple, and oriented towards ease of use and applications such as plotting. It is distributed by Mathsoft. MathCad has a "notebook" frontend interface similar to Scientific Notebook, and is easy and intuitive to use, making use of point-and-click layouts and keystrokes for basic tasks, such as plotting functions or data sets.
Some of Mathcad's mathematical capabilities are based on a subset (MKM aka Mathsoft Kernel Maple) of the Maple computer algebra system.
It is oriented around a worksheet, in which equations and expressions are displayed graphically, as opposed to plain text.
Among the capabilities of MathCad are:
- Solving differential equations, with several possible numerical methods
- Graphing functions in two or three Dimensions
- The use of the Greek alphabet (upper and lower case) in both text and equations
- Symbolic calculations
- Vector and matrix operations
- Symbolically solving systems of equations
- Curve Fitting
- Implementing subprograms
- Finding roots of polynomials and functions
- Statistical functions and probability distributions
- Finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Calculations in which units are bound to quantities
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